23 Feb A Zebra of Any Other Color
So I'm in a cheap motel in Kansas last year during my Summer touring, and I think, "The wood grain on the back of that door really looks like one side of an animal's face ...
Art
25 Jan Art in Nature – Blinksy
So I'm sure you've heard of Banksy, the anonymous street artist who has created incredible, socially conscious works in England and all over the world, but do you know who Blinksy is? Blinksy is what I call Banksy's rural counterpart. She's an artist who creates pieces in...
19 Jan Don’t Judge a Book Without Its Cover
As I mentioned in my previous post, my daughter is making a ukulele out of a book for her personal project at school. In order to do this, she bought a very old dictionary (it doesn’t even include the word “selfie”) and removed all the...
13 Jan Drawing Challenge Day 5: Jumping Jack
Well, the final challenge in the 5 Day Drawing Challenge was to create a "Jumping Jack". This was really more of a craft project, but still fun and rewarding. I struggled a bit trying to think of a good idea. I thought about making one that...
08 Jan Drawing Challenge Day 3: Mythical Creature
If you've been following along with the 5 Day Draw challenge, you'll remember that the Day 3 assignment was to draw a mythical creature that combined 3 different animals determined by the roll of the die. My 3 animals turned out to be an owl,...
06 Jan Drawing Challenge Day 2: Draw on a Rock
When Von Glitschka, the instructor of the "5 Day Drawing Challenge" assigned the task of drawing on a rock , I immediately had a specific rock in mind. When we bought a small cabin up in the high country near Alma, Colorado, we inherited a fire pit. Well,...
03 Jan 5 Day Drawing Challenge
Lately, I've been taking courses on Lynda.com. If you're not familiar with this website, it's a collection of video instruction courses on subjects related to technology, design and business. You can find thousands of videos about things like photography, web design, application development, video and music production...